“We were very impressed with several of the innovative features that NZXT put on the Switch 810, especially the consideration for pretty extreme water cooling setup with that 85mm of top clearance. The ability to drop a 420mm rad in the top and another 280mm rad in the bottom should be enough cooling for even a quad GPU setup. Placing easy to access filters on the intake fans is a real plus and should keep the dust bunnies to a minimum…”

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1844/1/

Recently, my brother pointed me to a very nice app called System
Monitor with Battery Max. It’s a 99 cent app that allows you to
monitor the hardware and software of your iDevice. What’s really nifty
about it was it was able to give me a live read of the iPhone 4S’ CPU
load. What we found shocked us – the Apple iPhone 4S had a constantly
high CPU load even when it idles!

Link : http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=740

On the surface the Octane is not a huge performer. OCZ has placed the drive under the Agility 3 yet the Octane costs more than the Vertex 3. You may wonder why the media has taken such an interest in Octane and I can answer that quickly. At CES this year OCZ demoed the Everest 2, the successor to the controller used in Octane, which is a potential candidate for OCZ’s flagship Vertex 4 that should hit be sampling in time for Computex in June. Any time spent decoding the mysteries, finding the strengths and weaknesses of Indilinx’s new SATA III architecture is essentially a dive into the technology OCZ plans to use in the second half of the year.”

For more information, please visit – http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4545/ocz_technology_octane_128gb_solid_state_drive_review/index.html

Let’s measure temperatures on computer hot spots with different case fan configurations in order to find out which one is the best.

“Recently, we published a test where we tried to find out which position of a case fan is the best for CPU temperatures. Now, let’s expand this experiment, comparing the temperatures of the computer “hot spots” under different case fan configurations. Check it out!”

“Intel has been one of the mainstays of the SSD world and are one of the most trusted names and respected leaders in the computer industry. Their groundbreaking X25-M SSDs were the gold standard for which all other drives were judged for quite some time. That said, the SandForce SF-2281 controller has been out for close to a year now and featured in drives from just about every SSD manufacturer – so why is Intel just now releasing their SF-2281 SSD, code named Cherryville? In one word, firmware…”

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1815/1/

Quote: “Intel appears to be making a habit out of adopting other SSD
controllers and revamping their firmware to make them their own. From
what we’ve seen today, they are indeed very good at it. This is the
best performance we’ve seen out of SandForce hardware paired with IMFT
Synchronous flash. Intel has also guaranteed their workmanship with a
5-year warranty – higher than the 3-year warranty provided by much of
the competition. Unfortunately the delays in getting the 520 Series to
market have given ample time to the competition, and newer controller
tech now exists (Indilinx Everest).”

Let’s take a look at the latest performance of the SATA-600 solid state drive from Intel to see how it compares to the models that competitors have to offer.

“There are a vast number of SATA-600 solid state drives on the market at the moment, so there have never been more choices for the people who want to give their system a performance boost. Today we are going to look at the latest SSD from Intel, the 520 Series 240 GB, which is designed with performance users in mind.”

Today we’re looking at the 128GB model. For me this review started out as another run-and-gun, get it over with because people will want to see it, but I won’t be that impressed type of review. The drive sat on a shelf for a couple of days while I played Battlefield and tried to get over my post CES depression caused mainly by the fact that I can’t get good steak back at home like I can get there. Now that I’ve tested this drive I feel much better, although it would be nice to get some good steak still.”

For more information, please visit – http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4533/corsair_performance_series_pro_128gb_solid_state_drive_review/index.html

Let’s take a look at the latest 3 TB hard drive from Seagate, the Barracuda 3 TB, and see how it performs when we put it through its paces.

Here is a snippet:
“Most enthusiasts will favor SSDs for their main boot drive rather than a mechanical hard drive thanks to the vast performance benefits available. However, there is still a large market for high performance mechanical drives which offer a much larger capacity for storage of large files. Today we are going to look at the latest Barracuda hard drive from Seagate, which offers no less than 3 TB of storage space.”

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1845/1/